The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has on Tuesday, asked the All Progressives Congress Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee, Mai Mala Buni, to resign his position.
In a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of PDP, in which the party noted that it is appalling that the Buni leadership of the APC could “in their penchant for falsehood, go to the extent of falsely accusing the justices of the Supreme Court of holding a meeting with PDP leaders allegedly to subvert justice, in a case, in which the PDP is not even a party.”
The PDP said the pronouncement of the Supreme Court has ultimately vindicated the party’s stand that the “APC is a party of irresponsible, reckless and dishonorable persons who only thrive in fabrications, falsehood, lies, blackmail and character assassination.”
The main opposition party added: “It is shameful that after mismanaging its nomination process in the Imo North Senatorial by-election, the APC leadership is seeking to drag our party into its vicious attempt to use the instrument of blackmail and character assassination against the justices of the Supreme Court to settle their internal scores.
“While it is obvious that the APC is plagued with political cannibalism, infighting and backstabbing, it is shocking that it will carry its wild tendencies to this ridiculous extent.
“The assertion by the Supreme Court that ‘if people as highly placed as the interim chairperson of the APC would open his mouth and make this weighty statement against innocent justices of this court…’ places a huge moral burden and integrity question on Governor Mai Buni.”
The PDP opined that the declaration by Supreme Court that the APC has been making such “useless statements” in the past further vindicates the opposition’s stand that the “APC is ethically challenged and should not have been entrusted with governance.”
The party therefore demanded that Buni should immediately resign as governor and APC chairperson, “having been indicted by the Supreme Court, after which he should face the court to answer for his baseless and ‘irresponsible’ allegation.”